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Died. Gerald de Bary, 37, Swiss-born director (since 1955) of the Salt Lake City zoo; 30 hours after being bitten by an African puff adder, one of the world's deadliest snakes; in Salt Lake City. Suffering from a bad case of flu, Bary was about to clean the adder's cage when he felt dizzy, thrust an arm through the open door, attempting to steady himself-whereupon the adder struck. Said De Bary, shortly before he died: "Don't blame the snake. He was only protecting himself...
...WOODNER-Contemporaries, 992 Madison Ave. at 77th. A profusion of still lifes-cornflowers, roses, mums, larkspur -bloom from dainty Rorschach applications of watercolors by the builder-architect who designed the Central Park Zoo. Through...
...father, Emperor Hirohito, is Japan's most famous Sunday marine microbiologist; his brother, Prince Yoshi, is a cytologist; and his son, Prince Hiro, is a confirmed admirer of the elephants at the zoo. With science all around, Crown Prince Akihito himself is no slouch when it comes to ichthyology. He has just finished a treatise on the shoulder blades of the goby fish, and used his 30th birthday press conference to announce a tonic devised to restore the appetite of his wife, Princess Michiko, still ailing after a March abortion. The "particularly effective delicacy," said the prince, consists...
...bars to serve beer or wine to whites and Negroes in the same room, Negro barbers to cut the hair of white women, amateur baseball teams of different races to play within two blocks of one another, and Negroes to visit any "whites only" park except the local zoo...
Most Thais also still believe, with Edward Topsell, an early 17th century bestiarist, that the elephant is a "great and ample demonstration of the power and wisedom of almighty God"-particularly the white variety. King Bhumibol has democratically quartered his own nine-year-old white model in the Bangkok zoo. There, when he reaches maturity in a few years, the handsome specimen may become the first white elephant ever to be mated in captivity...